Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer: Electronics Projects for Hobbyists and Inventors

Turn your flashes of creativity into first-rate gadgets

Covers Gadgeteer for Micro Framework 4.1 and 4.2

Realize your inner innovator and rapidly build breathtaking electronic devices with Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer. By working through easy-to-follow, practical projects, you ll discover how to design, assemble, and prototype your own gadgets all without ever lifting a soldering iron. Learn how to choose components, write Gadgeteer applications, connect your creations to the Web, and troubleshoot. Microsoft .NET Gadgeteer: Electronics Projects for Hobbyists and Inventors contains complete instructions for building your projects using money-saving mainboards and modules.

• Set up the development environment and tools on your PC
• Understand Gadgeteer mainboards, modules, and sockets
• Learn how the Micro Framework and Gadgeteer libraries work
• Download and debug your applications from your PC
• Learn the principles of writing structured applications for embedded projects
• Interface with SPI, I2C, and serial-based modules
• Work with Gadgeteer interfaces for serial and storage devices, graphics, networking, and web-connected devices
• Design touch-sensitive graphic display gadgets
• Create web servers and web devices